As a relatively sedate instrumental album with plodding drums and dark atmospherics, Blockhead's second solo album, Downtown Science, isn't much different from his first. While it's status quo for Blockhead, the most lasting details on the album might be the most incidental ones. Over the heavy boom-bap and reverberating bass of the DJ Shadow-lite opener "Expiration Date", there's a sample of a male vocal who laments how commonplace heartbreak is, singing "probably hundreds of wonderful love affairs go bad in this town every week," and then, almost inaudibly, "...it's a big town."